Jaroslav Halak’s best save of the postseason for the Bruins has been a dandy glove stop on a deflected puck — into the team's bench. His reflexes still were on point, despite being firmly stapled to the pine for the team’s playoff run, and he saved a member of the training staff from a nasty lump. That he’s seen no...

What happened at the Museum of Fine Arts recently was inexcusable. A group of mainly black schoolchildren were made to feel uncomfortable and unwelcome, singled out for negative and racially tinged remarks by security and others. But I am not willing to do what others do to folk of color and paint the MFA with a broad brush. The fact...

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHERBOSTON (AP) — Celebrity chef Mario Batali, whose career crumbled amid several sexual misconduct accusations, pleaded not guilty Friday to a charge that he forcibly kissed and groped a woman at a Boston restaurant in 2017.Batali, 58, wearing his signature red ponytail and a blazer, did not speak during the brief hearing but nodded as the judge...